"They keep trying, however the true fact remains no encryption was used by these terrorists."

I don't know if this is true. But it doesn't matter. You can't uninvent encryption. If every American company is forced to backdoor their software, it won't stop terrorists using perfectly secure encryption.

Maybe the idea is that all "innocent" people will use the broken encryption, leaving anyone using the real thing as a target. But there are enough people, and especially companies, that will insist on using secure encryption to make this unworkable in a short time.

Four links in the lead para. All identical, all to "WindowsIT.pro".

Show some restraint in shoving your brand down our throats.

One link is informative. Two is over--enthusiastic. FOUR IS SPAM.

Please allow me to revise my response to:
"The Ice Age question was a potential concern for an indefinite future of unknown timing. Again this uncertainty was a driver for initial funding on major climate science."

-- Yes, the climate cycles that lead to ice ages in the past and would have normally caused their return was being studied, But the timescales were in the tens of thousands of years, and once the impact of humanity in greenhouse gases, deforestation, etc, was taken into account it completely swamped the natural cycles.

Whether the next ice age would have come in five or ten thousand years without human intervention is an interesting but purely academic question. Global warming is a problem for our children, not the next millennium.

"you obviously weren't there in my grad school. The Ice Age question was a potential concern for an indefinite future of unknown timing. Again this uncertainty was a driver for initial funding on major climate science."
Give a citation, not an anecdote with not one verifiable fact.

"There is an element of changing perspectives, and repeating fashions here."
The "changing perspective" is that what was highly speculative in the 70s is now based on incontrovertible peer-reviewed evidence collected over decades by thousands of scientists. Yet you argue that uncited statements made by unnamed people 50 years ago invalidates any research presented since.

"And you slightly demonstrate my thesis of angry dissonant crowds "
You called people who disagree with you "zealots" while those who do agree with you are "realists". Then you tut tut at people getting annoyed at your labels. Sorry, arrogant hypocrites do make me angry. It's a character flaw, I admit.

"you cannot see in which folders reside the bookmarks found. "

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

First you say: "Angry CAGW zealots meet climate realists"
Ten you hypocritically complain: "simple denigration of oppositional views and their holders is not going to be effective"

"I have a much harder science background"... in climate science? I studied physics and computer science. And I know enough to know what I'm not an expert in.

Also, the repeated talking point "the principal criticism of CO2 was its likely lack of adequate effect to prevent an Ice Age" is a complete fabrication by denialists, based on a few Sunday supplement stories, not peer-reviewed scientific articles. And that was 50 years ago. We have collected a bit more data since then.

Cite real sources or STFU.
 

Check if Library Genesis has an epub of it.

That's how you'd do it.

I'm sure there are plenty -- whether it's 99% or 50% , it's still millions -- who would just use a card with their real identity. Anyway, we'll find out when the database is dumped.

"look for them here in earth. Use them to sieve the thousands of stories about aliens"

That truly would be a complete waste of money.
All these loonie stories kidnapping, anal probes, etc, etc, is why serious SETI gets treated as a joke.

Anyway,it's been done.
The answer is 99% proven nothing happened, 1% unknown.

Use your brain. If aliens are visiting us with such frequency, WHERE IS THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE?
Any artefact made off-earth will have a different isotopic ratio, even if we don't know what it is.
Where is one drop of alien sweat with their DNA or equivalent?

"If the search for extraterrestrial life leads to that life deciding to destroy all life on earth, would it
still be a "good investment" ?"

The proposed plan is for listening only, not broadcasting a "here we are" signal,.

If there are indeed malignant and hostile aliens who extermiante every other species that pops up, it would be even more important to know all we can about them.

"Too many variables to know what is really going on atm." Yes.Which is why actually doing some legwork rather than just theorising makes sense. $100m is nothing compared to the potential consequences of discovering ET life. Even if the chance is 1 in a million, it's a good investment.

Again, its not the "dating profile" that matters, but the membership in the site. You need real details for the financial transactions.

(Yeah, they could use bitcoin, but this isn't a geek site, they'd just use their AmeX.)

Slashdot editors don't use, or ignore, spellcheck anyway.

They don't check anything really. Multiple dupes, ten-year-old stories resubmitted, obvious bogus stories, etc, etc. Offences against grammar are the least (but still irritating) of their sins.

3 "decent" fails actually.

The tit size and penis length parts are probably unreliable. The names, addresses and credit card numbers (since it's a pay site) must be real.